Where do we go from here?

I'm exhausted. I've been working non-stop on the script for our documentary film on spiritual discovery at Angkor Wat. I have never been there, but from imagining the place I feel I have walked amid the ruins for centuries.

The idea of the movie is to show a travel-weary professor who meets a mysterious Russian Swami and his film crew in Angkor Wat and undergoes a spiritual transformation. I'm not sure how much more transformation I can do.

It's been more than a month since I said goodbye to Aurora in Mexico.

Hopped a plane to Cancun...

And saw my long-lost sister-in-law, Lourdes.

It was a quick meeting in the airport, but well worth it. I was happy to restore old family ties.

With Lourdes in Cancun

24 hours later I was in Lahta, Petersburg, with the Chaitanya Saraswat Math, lecturing on the disappearance of Govinda Maharaja.

Airport in St. Petersburg, Russia

Lahta St. Petersburg

The talks were well-received...

With Prithu translating...

And I even had time to visit the Samurai exhibit with Vijay Raman Prabhu...

Cool Samurai Helmet

After some more talks...

After the talks were finished, there were couple of Russian bear hugs, and I took the Sapspan train to Moscow.

Moscow is a great, muscular metropolis. We also delivered a couple of lectures here.

After a ride in the famous Tilak-wagon, I settled into the palatial accommodations at our Vedic Cultural Yoga Center across the street from the offices of the KGB. (they don't call it that anymore. It doesn't exist. No one is watching you.)

friends in moscow

I can't believe it.

It's hard to believe I met all those wonderful people and made all those friends. After Moscow it was off to Kiev for more lectures.

But first we said goodbye to our friends in Moscow, from left to right there's me, Muralishwar my translator. Across the table near the window is Chintamani, another translator, Prithu Das, one of the masterminds of the operation and wearing a green sweater is Gokula Taruni, driver of the famous Tilak Wagon. I'll put up some more photos tomorrow, folks. Thanks for tuning in.